Sophie Mackintosh


Sophie Mackintosh is a British novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

Biography

Mackintosh was born in South Wales and grew up in Pembrokeshire. When she started writing, her initial focus was on poetry, but gravitated towards prose fiction, which she has combined around holding various jobs during her 20s.
She is bilingual, and cites Welsh mythology and Angela Carter as influences. Mackintosh enjoys running and eating, and since 2018, she has been working on her second novel.
Her novel The Water Cure was released in May 2018. According to The Guardian's review, the novel exposes the parts of real life that are usually not confronted in the world. British book editor Hermione Thompson who works for Penguin books and who helped to publish the novel, wrote about the novel, “The Water Cure is an astonishing novel: it unfolds seductively, like a dream, yet speaks urgently to the concerns of our own world. It heralds the arrival of a radical new voice in literary fiction.”

Novels